Apex yeasts, anyone?

[Bigbre04]

Yep, This a great yeast at a great price. I have had excellent experience with San Diego Ale Yeast (great flavor, quick fermentation, excellent flocculation) would definitely recommend the San Diego and London. Just bought a brick of Munich Lager, can't wait to try it. Am very surprised and happy with this dry yeast. Not a bad price either!

i use thier voss and munich lager for all of my beers. I have used most of their other styles as well. Im gonna get some batches rolling with the San Diego and kolsch strains soon since things at the beach are slowing down.

 

[Ozarks Mountain Brewery]

We will need more info especially temps.

I have a brick of their hazy yeast which i assume is what you are referring to? I have not yet used it.

I have used the Munich lager, Voss, and San Diego(chico).

The Voss worked as expected.

The Munich Lager was a little slow to take off, but it finished clean and down to about 78% attenuation. Which is not terrible for the beer style.

The San Diego is currently bubbling away in a sour. It has been very slow fermentation wise, but it was pitched into beer that had llalemand sour pitch already rolling. The PH was 3.4 when i pitched the yeast and 12.8P on Friday afternoon. This morning the ph was down to 3.19 and the grav was 9.1p. This is a HARSH environment to say the yeast! Even Voss struggles to get started in the sours. The Lactic bacteria has eaten most of the Small sugars and it didnt get its normal O2 kick while knocking out.

This does not surprise me at all, but i was hoping that being solidly within the temp range of the Chico yeast would give it a leg up over the Voss. Its going slow but i don't think that is the fault of the yeast.

if your asking about results, look at the notes of this brew of Brew Mentor
https://www.brewersfriend.com/homebrew/recipe/view/1534056/keeping-the-lights-on-1bbl

 

[Bigbre04]

if your asking about results, look at the notes of this brew of Brew Mentor
https://www.brewersfriend.com/homebrew/recipe/view/1534056/keeping-the-lights-on-1bbl

Man this is an old post! I have over 100 brews with exclusively apex yeast! Ordered 8 more bricks yesturday!

 

[The Brew Mentor]

if your asking about results, look at the notes of this brew of Brew Mentor
https://www.brewersfriend.com/homebrew/recipe/view/1534056/keeping-the-lights-on-1bbl

Those are copied notes from @HighVoltageMan!
Credit where credit is due!

 

[The Brew Mentor]

Man this is an old post! I have over 100 brews with exclusively apex yeast! Ordered 8 more bricks yesturday!

I have had a lot of success with it as well.
Have you tried the kolsch yeast yet @Bigbre04 ?

 

[J A]

Holy cow!!! I can't believe this zombie post still has legs. I'll have to go back through and see what sort of buzz there was while I was away.
As soon as I replace my glycol chiller and prep my 1/2 -barrel Uni, I'll see about pitching some of my Apex in a big batch of my rice lager or nice summer Pils.

 

[Bigbre04]

I have had a lot of success with it as well.
Have you tried the kolsch yeast yet @Bigbre04 ?

I have some on deck but I have not had a chance to use it. Gonna order a few bricks of the Mexican lager to compare it to the Munich which is my go to.

Brewing a belgian double this coming week(was supposed to have been brewed last week but we have been snowed in all week)

 

[Bigbre04]

Holy cow!!! I can't believe this zombie post still has legs. I'll have to go back through and see what sort of buzz there was while I was away.
As soon as I replace my glycol chiller and prep my 1/2 -barrel Uni, I'll see about pitching some of my Apex in a big batch of my rice lager or nice summer Pils.

Apex is pretty awesome honestly. It's not surprising!